Merritt Wever

Merritt Wever

Acting
August 11, 1980(age 45)
New York, New York, USA

Also Known As

Meritt Wever, Merrit Wever, 메릿 웨버, 梅里特・維沃, مریت ویور

Biography

Merritt Carmen Wever (born August 11, 1980) is an American actress. She is known for starring as a perennially upbeat young nurse in Nurse Jackie (2009–2015), an intrepid widow in the Netflix period miniseries Godless (2017), and a detective investigating a serial rapist in the Netflix crime mini-series Unbelievable (2019). For Nurse Jackie, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2013, for Godless, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie in 2018 and for the mini-series Unbelievable, she was nominated the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film in 2020. Wever has also had supporting roles in other television series, including Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006–2007), New Girl (2013), and The Walking Dead (2015–2016). She has also played supporting roles in such films as Michael Clayton (2007), Birdman (2014), and Marriage Story (2019), all of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, with Birdman winning.

Movies

(32 total)

TV Shows

(22 total)
Severance

Severance

20228.4

as Gretchen George

NCIS

NCIS

20037.6

as Wendy Smith

New Girl

New Girl

20117.4

as Elizabeth

Unbelievable

Unbelievable

20197.9

as Detective Karen Duvall

Godless

Godless

20177.7

as Mary Agnes

Law & Order

Law & Order

19907.3

as Sunshine Porter

Law & Order

Law & Order

19907.3

as Jennifer Taylor

The Good Wife

The Good Wife

20097.6

as Aubrey Gardner

Robot Chicken

Robot Chicken

20057.7

as Mandy / Susan the Tauntaun (voice)

The Gilded Age

The Gilded Age

20227.6

as Monica O'Brien

Nurse Jackie

Nurse Jackie

20097.1

as Zoey Barkow

RUN

RUN

20206.5

as Ruby

Roar

Roar

20225.6

as Elisa

Conviction

Conviction

20065.7

as Bridget Kellner